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Dressing gown   /drˈɛsɪŋ gaʊn/   Listen
noun
Dressing  n.  
1.
Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
2.
(Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
3.
Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
4.
(Cookery)
(a)
A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
(b)
The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
5.
Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
6.
An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
7.
Castigation; scolding; often with down. (Colloq.)
Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils.
Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.
Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown.
Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.
Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.





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"Dressing gown" Quotes from Famous Books



... who had asserted his inalienable natural rights with so much fervor was scarcely twenty—at least he had not reached his majority. He was richly clad, with the exception of an old faded dressing gown, which fell gracefully like a Roman toga around his legs; and his face was full of intelligence and careless, somewhat cynical humor. The features were hard and pointed, the mouth large, the hair sandy with a ...
— The Youth of Jefferson - A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 • Anonymous
... more at home and passed a few remarks about the weather. Procurio smiled and uncovered some lovely kidnys on toast and as he did so bent and whispered in Mr Salteenas ear you could have come in in your dressing gown. ...
— The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan • Daisy Ashford
... on the sill and her chin in the palms of her hands. The loose sleeves of Miss Thackeray's bizarre dressing gown fell away, revealing two round, smooth, white arms. The sun shot its mellow light into the ripples of her tousled hair, and it shone like burnished gold. Her white teeth gleamed against the red of her ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... shorter, Riley felt, than a man had any right to be. Moreover, he was too delicately made. He had a head of bright blond hair, thick and rather on end. The face was thin and handsome, and the eyes impressed Riley as being at once both bright and weary. He was wearing a dressing gown, the first Riley had ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... ten o'clock, and Sir Wynston retired to his chamber at the same hour. He found little difficulty in inducing Marston to amuse him there with a quiet game of piquet. In his own room, therefore, in the luxurious ease of dressing gown and slippers he sat at cards with his host, often until an hour or two past midnight. Sir Wynston was exorbitantly wealthy, and very reckless in expenditure. The stakes for which they played, although they ...
— The Evil Guest • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


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